when your @madewell dress matches your local “Little Red Lighthouse”...
The LRL has not been functional for some time. From the @nycparks website: Located underneath the George Washington Bridge along a treacherous section of the Hudson River once known as Jeffrey’s Hook, it is one of the few surviving lighthouses in New York City. The Hudson River is an important route for travel, connecting upstate cities such as Albany to NYC & the Atlantic Ocean. So as traffic increased along the river, so did the number of shipwrecks at Jeffrey’s Hook and in an attempt to reduce accidents, poles and lanterns were used to mark the spot and warn captains. The results weren't strong enough so in the early 20th century, captains demanded a brighter beacon. The Little Red Lighthouse had been erected on Sandy Hook, New Jersey in 1880. However, it became obsolete there and was moved here by the U.S. Coast Guard in 1921 to fulfill that request by captains for a brighter beacon. Run by a part-time keeper, furnished with a battery-powered lamp and a fog bell, it was known as Jeffrey’s Hook Lighthouse. But then the George Washington Bridge opened in 1931 and the brighter lights of the bridge made the lighthouse obsolete. In 1948, the Coast Guard decommissioned the lighthouse, and its lamp was extinguished. A plan to auction off the Lighthouse was stopped by an outpouring of support prompted by the 1942 children’s book, The Little Red Lighthouse, written by Hildegarde Swift and Lynd Ward. The book captured the imaginations of children and adults, many of whom wrote letters and sent money to help save the icon from the auction block. In 1951 the Coast Guard gave the property to NYC Parks & in 1979 the Little Red Lighthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
